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Jun 12, 2013

Divided Immigrant Families Reach Beyond Barriers - NYTimes.com

Jun 5, 2013

The Movimiento Nacional de Pendejos y My Poem - {Young}ist

May 21, 2013

Immigrant Death Rate Rises on Illegal Crossings - NYTimes.com

May 18, 2013

A Focus on Border Security and Temporary Visas as Senators Return to Immigration - NYTimes.com

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SESSHU FOSTER AND ARTURO ROMO-SANTILLANO

Kraken Destroys Zeppelins

Arturo E. Romo-Santillano

“Some hold in hand the first cup of coffee of the day. Those are the ones who did not work all night.”

 

Posted in Culture, Fiction/Poetry
Tagged: civil rights, families, Fiction, labor
SESSHU FOSTER

the 19 10,000

(Bill Keaggy)

“she made the tamales of the past and the tamales outside of time” — A poem by Sesshu Foster.

 

Posted in Culture, Fiction/Poetry
Tagged: Arts/Poetry, California, families, labor
MICHELLE CHEN

Putting the Art in Wal-Mart’s Labor Struggle

 

Posted in Activism, Nonfiction
Tagged: labor, Wal-Mart
SARAH MACARAEG

Crossing Histories on Amtrak

(Ed Gately)

A writer discovers that Sabra Hummus—a boycott target of the Palestine solidarity movement—is being served on her Amtrak train.

 

Posted in Activism, Nonfiction
Tagged: border, civil rights, hate crime, labor
MICHELLE CHEN, ROC UNITED

The Bitter Side of Restaurant Work

ROC United protest (rocunited via flickr)

 

Posted in Activism, Nonfiction
Tagged: labor, Restaurant Opportunities Center
MICHELLE CHEN

A Day in the Life of Happy Hills

Adolfo

 

Posted in Arts, Culture
Tagged: California, Colorlines.com, labor, public art, Ramiro Gomez
JEFF BIGGERS

Silencing Chavez

Vivir Sin Fronteras/Living Without Borders (True Colors Mural Project)

The prophetic Cesar Chavez speech from 1984 that Tucson officials don’t want students to read.

 

Posted in Activism, Arts, Education
Tagged: Cesar Chavez, farmworkers, labor, Saving Ethnic Studies, Tucson
MICHELLE CHEN

Struggle for Immigrants’ Rights Highlights Split Within Organized Labor

ICE officers’ union resists reforms while AFl-CIO demands more.

 

Posted in Nonfiction, Politics
Tagged: Joe Arpaio, labor, union

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